Tucson Agenda and AZ Agenda forgot to mention the role of lobbyists, money, all-expenses-paid trips to foreign countries (for 17 representatives including the Speaker, several GOP committee chairs and a few Dems) and rigged committees in getting bills passed in the Legislature. We have to have some lawmakers who are brave enough to propose and talk about the unpopular bills that won't get passed -- like tackling chronic poverty or stopping unnecessary maternal and infant death after childbirth. If you make the Republicans feel guilty often enough, those issues can be addressed. If the Dems focus on tiny bills that can get passed -- like the pork barrel funding through license plates -- and ignore the big issues, that's not good for our state. Someone has to say, "Perhaps we should tackle homelessness and affordable housing by pay a living wage in this state" OR "We could balance the budget if the rich paid taxes." We need lawmakers who are willing to speak truth to power.
Could it be that Alma is so prolific because she offers her colleagues all expense paid junkets to countries that are committing genocide with our tax dollars, thereby causing the legislature (which i thought had some pretty tough issues on its plate) to close down for a week? This is not doxxing, just reacting to yesterdays story in the Arizona Agenda.Some of us are even wondering what the timing was of that vacation offer as we cannot understand why our pro education legislator down here voted “present” to a bill proposed by Alma that is a clear infringement of students rights to free speech and association. Buying votes is certainly ONE way to be an effective lawmaker but at least some of her constituents dont appreciate the focus on anti-muslim or palestinian bills that only serve to further define our state as racist and non inclusionary.
Tucson Agenda and AZ Agenda forgot to mention the role of lobbyists, money, all-expenses-paid trips to foreign countries (for 17 representatives including the Speaker, several GOP committee chairs and a few Dems) and rigged committees in getting bills passed in the Legislature. We have to have some lawmakers who are brave enough to propose and talk about the unpopular bills that won't get passed -- like tackling chronic poverty or stopping unnecessary maternal and infant death after childbirth. If you make the Republicans feel guilty often enough, those issues can be addressed. If the Dems focus on tiny bills that can get passed -- like the pork barrel funding through license plates -- and ignore the big issues, that's not good for our state. Someone has to say, "Perhaps we should tackle homelessness and affordable housing by pay a living wage in this state" OR "We could balance the budget if the rich paid taxes." We need lawmakers who are willing to speak truth to power.
Could it be that Alma is so prolific because she offers her colleagues all expense paid junkets to countries that are committing genocide with our tax dollars, thereby causing the legislature (which i thought had some pretty tough issues on its plate) to close down for a week? This is not doxxing, just reacting to yesterdays story in the Arizona Agenda.Some of us are even wondering what the timing was of that vacation offer as we cannot understand why our pro education legislator down here voted “present” to a bill proposed by Alma that is a clear infringement of students rights to free speech and association. Buying votes is certainly ONE way to be an effective lawmaker but at least some of her constituents dont appreciate the focus on anti-muslim or palestinian bills that only serve to further define our state as racist and non inclusionary.